The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 567)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 567)
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(d) gets access to Arab female labor, whose mobilization into capi-
talist production in Jewish work places may otherwise be impossible, owing
to their subjegation to patriarchal oppression. This implies, therefore,
an access to a more vulnerable labor force, hence conducive to the creation
of higher surplus value;
(e) moreover, by investing its small capital in Palestinian-Arab com-
munities, the Israeli national bourgeoisie temporarily avoids the competi-
tion with the compradore and international bourgeoisie, whose merging big
capital is invested in Jewish rural and urban communities and mainly in
high technology products for export. That is why (as we have documented in
a previous chapter) Israeli small capital is reviving indigenous tradition-
al industries like olive oil soap and other small-scale manufacturing.
The industrialization of traditional rural settlements is, therefore,
consistent with the survival and profit imperatives of the Israeli national
bourgeoisie. Whether or not it leads to economic development of the "tra-
ditional" Arab sector depends not on the employment multiplier effect such
investment generates in these localities, but rather on the extent to which
the inhabitants of these villages share in the economic ownership of these
enterprises, hence the extent to which they exercise control over their own
sources of employment. The central issue, however, is to emphasize that
the considerations identified above can promise only to enlarge the size of
the proletariat, even though the penetration of non-citizen Palestinians
across the Green Line border seems to be declining.
Further enlargement in the size of the proletariat is expected to be
the result of capitalist transformation of agriculture. - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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